Familiar Interface
Microsoft’s web authoring tool, FrontPage 2002, is often used to create and publish web sites for small companies and intranets. If you are familiar with Microsoft Word, you will be very comfortable with the graphical user interface in FrontPage. The page formatting features – such as choosing fonts, alignment, and clip art – are similar to those used in the Microsoft Office applications.

Web Management
In addition to creating and publishing web sites, FrontPage can be used to keep track of web page files and even automatically change links when you rename or move files within your FrontPage web site, called a FrontPage Web.

Server-Side Processing
FrontPage offers server-side processing such as saving form data to text files, saving form data to databases, sending form data in e-mails, and providing a search feature for your FrontPage Web. These special features make use of FrontPage "webbots" and depend on your web server to have special programs, called FrontPage Server Extensions, installed.

Support at Free Web Hosts
Some free web presence providers and many commercial web presence providers support FrontPage web sites and have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed on their web servers.

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